Officers' Quarters with Attached Basement Area Railings, St George's Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1983. Quarters. 2 related planning applications.
Officers' Quarters with Attached Basement Area Railings, St George's Barracks
- WRENN ID
- ragged-bastion-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gosport
- Constituency
- Gosport MP: Dame Caroline Dinenage (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1983
- Type
- Quarters
- Address
- Officers' Quarters with Attached Basement Area Railings, St George's Barracks, PO12 1AG
- OS grid reference
- SU 616 003
- Coordinates
- 50.79914, -1.12708
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Officers' Quarters at St George's Barracks, built between 1856 and 1859, is a disused structure made of yellow stock brick with lateral stacks and a flat roof. It features a double-depth axial plan and consists of a single storey with a basement. The building has a symmetrical front with a ground-floor band, cornice, and parapet. The façade includes a 7:8:7-window range, with entrances at each end that divide the front into three sections. These entrances have stone surrounds, bracketed cornices, overlights, and half-glazed doors, with margin lights and stairs leading to the basement area. The windows are fitted with rubber brick heads and 6/6-pane sashes on both levels. A square water tower is located at the southwest corner, supported by round arches.
Inside, the building contains dogleg stairs from the entrances, a central passage connecting the rooms, and original joinery, including panelled doors and plasterwork. The property is also notable for its attached cast-iron railings, which feature panels with diagonal bars at the entrance stairs and around the round basement areas.
Historically, the quarters housed officers and servants, as well as a mess. The barracks served as a transit station for infantry after the Crimean War and were designed to be bomb-proof due to their location just inside the Gosport Lines. This site is the only example of this type of barracks in the country and forms a complete group with the Lines earthworks, highlighting Gosport's significance in the defense of the Portsmouth dockyard.
Local climate
Officers' Quarters with Attached Basement Area Railings, St George's Barracks receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
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